What should Bill Gates read? Our top 5 books for his list

A few weeks ago, Bill Gates posted his summer reading list. A self-confessed reading junkie — “sometimes I can get in as much as a book a day” — poking around in what is firing Gates’ reading lists these days is quite a treat.

Well, Gates’ blog readers started sending in their own suggestions for him to read. This week, Gates shared his readers’ top 10 picks for him on his blog, which funnily enough, included Walter Isaacson’s bio on Steve Jobs.

While he says that he does prefer nonfiction, he is open to fiction suggestions as well. And if you’re wondering if Gates has read The Hunger Games, don’t worry. He has. And he enjoyed it.

Mr. Gates, there are a slew of excellent new titles coming out that, especially given your interest in philanthropy, would be awesome additions to your reading device of choice. May we suggest …

Predictive Health: How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years by Emory University physicians Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E. Johns about improving disease prevention efforts worldwide (out Oct. 2).

And just for the hell of it, we hope that you’ve read Life by Keith Richards, which may be more up your fellow Microsoft founder Paul Allen’s boat, but is highly entertaining nonetheless.

GeekWire readers, other suggestions for Gates?

Molly Brown comes from an arts and culture background, including stints at Billboard Magazine and Kirkus Reviews. An avid blogger on all-things culture, she covers a wide range of fun, geeky topics on GeekWire's Geek Life beat. Follow her @evilmolly and reach her at molly@geekwire.com.